What’s the fuzz about Affiliate Marketing?
Affiliate marketing seems to be a trendy word nowadays. Of course, there is a big reason for it. It is all about $$$$ the money! Well, who doesn’t want some extra cash right?
Especially when it comes to making money online, that would be very sweet indeed.
Can you really make money easily with Affiliate Marketing?
Emm… that would be a Yes and a No. You see, can you make money with Affiliate Marketing? Of course, you can.
Can you make money easily with Affiliate Marketing? No, not really. It’s not hard, but it is also not as easy as you think.
There are steps involves and many online strategies that you need to implement properly to make your online site to start to make money.
Affiliate Marketing – What is it?
Before we go any further, do you have any idea what is actually Affiliate Marketing?
Here is an excerpt according to Wikipedia
“Affiliate Marketing is a type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought by the affiliate’s own marketing efforts.”
Did you get it? No?
Okay, in a nutshell, Affiliate Marketing is basically you as a publisher (your website or blog) will get paid each time a product or service is purchased through your website or blog.
The way that Affiliate Marketing work probably makes it one the fastest and cheapest (but not the easiest) way to make money online.
This is because you do not have to create any products to start an online business with Affiliate Marketing.
All you need to do is find a way to link up a seller and buyer, and through that sales transaction, you will take a certain percentage of commission.
More like an online merchant or an online middleman if you will.
Middleman? Can’t the customer buy straight from the source?
You help to link the seller and the buyer
Some of you might say that it is better for the buyer to go straight to the source and buy at a cheaper price. Yes sure, of course.
The thing is, there are so many options and choices of services and products out there. How do they choose?
This is where your website or blog comes in.
If you can provide an honest, satisfying, and helpful review on a certain product, visitors on your website will be more than happy to purchase the product of your recommendation through your website.
You will then earn your commission and the buyer will a happy camper.
Who knows, the buyer may become your regular visitor and become a repeat customer.
A win-win situation for both parties.
How to become an affiliate marketer
So, are you interested in becoming an affiliate marketer yourself?
To be successful in Affiliate Marketing, there are basically 4 basic steps:
- Choose an Interest: It could be anything that you want
- Build a Website: There is an easy way to build a website here
- Get Rankings & Visitors: Target the main search engines, i.e. Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Facebook
- Start to Earn Revenue: By selling products or stuff that people want!
You can see below the basic process involved in making money online:
Now, you can start to see visually (above) how successful affiliate marketers make their money online.
Ready to learn to make money online?
The above illustration shows the basic process of how you can make money online.
It looks easy enough, but in actual fact, there are a lot of things going on to make sure you eventually gained decent traffics and start making sales.
This is the tricky part. You need to learn all the affiliate marketing basics and utilize the right tools to start to see some results.
Once you are more experienced and seasoned, you can go on to learn advanced marketing techniques to get even more successful.
Learn affiliate marketing the right way
To be successful in affiliate marketing, I do not recommend you to go out and learn by yourself.
You will endure time-wasting, financial loss, and heartache before you can start to see success.
On my page section, LEGITIMATE ONLINE BUSINESS I have shared several excellent places to learn affiliate marketing.
Personally, I would recommend you to my no.1 rated Affiliate Marketing Training Program, Wealthy Affiliate.
I have made my research and tried quite a number of the online training programs.
Honestly speaking, no program can come close to Wealthy Affiliate in terms of training comprehensiveness, most up-to-date module, and value for money.
You can read my complete review on Wealthy Affiliate HERE and learn why it is my no.1 choice for affiliate marketing training.
If you have any questions, comments, or opinions, I would love to hear from you.
Just drop a comment below, I would definitely reply to you. Thank you.
Dominic@dlansing
I agree with you that affiliate marketing is cheapest and fastest way to get extra income from online business. Website content do help people to make decisiton to buy product. It’s not pushy selling.
Thanks for stopping by Septiana. Indeed affiliate marketing really works and what’s more it is cheap and quite fast to set-up too. Only thing is, one must put up his own effort to ensure his or her own success!
Rgds,
dominic@dlansing
I am using WA and I find it very helpful and I have been writing articles for 8 years. Since Google changes so much, one has to stay current with new trends.
Thanks for your comment. Yes I agree that WA really stays very current and relevant on the latest online trend 🙂
dominic@dlansing
Hi Dominic,
You’ve covered Affiliate Marketing Training for Beginners so well. It’s all there. The things a new person needs to know. Just think some scammers out there charge up to $100 for this and you’re giving it away free. Thanks
Hi Ed, thank you for your comment. Yes I agree, these are very basic information and it is not right to charge people unreasonably.
Rgds,
dominic
I agree it is one of the fastest ways of making moneys, but also not the easiest. What I love about it is you don’t have to worry about handling any products, storage or all those issues that come with a physical product.
A potentially very rewarding opportunity, but you must first put in the ground work and be consistent.
All the best to you.
Ty
Thank you for agreeing with me Ty! The effort itself is very rewarding and when your income finally comes in, that’s pure satisfaction!
dominic@dlansing
1. With affiliate marketing being such a big part of the “Make Money Online” community there’s a lot of bogus fluff floating around the internet. It’s hard to trust anybody when very few people walk the walk.
Here and there you’ll find some hidden gems in the marketplace that are actually worth your time.
I’m a big fan of PJ Gahagan’s stuff. He’s got a proven track record of one of the best affiliates in the world, plus he throws together live case studies, training, etc. He’s got a free webinar where you can check out a system that’s been making him a couple hundred dollars per day on auto-pilot.
If you’re interested, you can check it out here: http://goo.gl/3HsZiu
Once again, great article! I’ll be subscribing for more.
Hi Patrick, yes it is certainly is. I have never heard of PK Gahagan before, but I will check it out. Your link doesn’t seem to work by the way. Please send a workable link if you want me to take a look and give it a comment. Thank you for your comment.
Dlansing